Lords of the Gyzome: The (brief) Return of the King!
by Gyzome on Comments
Messing around aside, today's it's precisely 2 years and 3 days ago I've made an entry here. And instead of being a MAN and leaving my past behind me, I decided some retrospect to the community I've been part of for so long wouldn't hurt, might even be interesting. First thing I notice is the large amounts of messages like these, I can't help but feel that the friend group is dying, if not already dead. Some of you might remember the chief reason for me staying here: gilvatar. In case you didn't know, we had this somekind of "online relationship", something I recon I took a bit too serious back then, but a nice experience in retrospect. We used to send pm's back and forth, sometimes multiple times a day. There was one thing however that this "relationship" could not survive: holidays. I often travel on holidays, and often it's to my grandmothers house in Poland, where internet on the countryside is scarce. So that meant the pm traffic would cease for about a month. The last time this happened it didn't resume, and the "relationship" died, along with my presence here on tv.com. So now that I've told the story of the end, time for the begining. Simple: I got into "Avatar: The Last Airbender", did some googling, stumbled upon what was at the time, afaik the largest Avatar community, joined, made friends etc... After the end and the beginning there's of course still the epilogue :D, which goes as following: I think Avatar made me realise high-quality animation was possible, so about a year ago, I watched my first "real" anime (not stuff like pokemon or dbz), Azumanga Daioh. I was pleasantly surprised. Soon after, I watched The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I was enchanted by the incredible quality story-wise, as well as the superb production quality and, eh, the catchy opening and ending themes :p. The moment I saw what I still feel is the best anime I've personally seen, I knew there was no going back. Toradora! is a show that has overall high quality elements (story, character design, art, sound etc...) individually. But the degree at which they add up together, fit together, are complementary to each other.. multiply the value of the show by a high factor, is something I've never seen before. This is a romantic comedy that turns serious half way through and is something I'd certainly recommend. As of now, I've seen 50+ series in one year, so I'd say I'm pretty actively engaged in it :p So after telling my life's story, here are the questions: who of you is still active, when do you think you'll leave? Btw this is not a "I'm gone forever kthxbai" post, I might just stay if lots of people haven't died yet :p If anyone needs me, you can find me on myanimelist.com simply as Gyzome. As for my email, I feel I can trust you people with it: detuur@gmail.com I'm also active on IRC, again under the name Gyzome (or derivatives like Gyzome^Food when I'm eating so come to my channels to make sure) on the "irc.rizon.net" server. Whenever I'm online, I'm always in the channel #hina and to a lesser extent #doki, as I'm a mod in those two. Msg me whenever you're around. edit: I'm also on facebook as Arthur Jochems, add me!
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